Prince Ali of the Sulu Kingdom and Prince Murtin of the Boni Kingdom who came with him were all stunned... What did the Ming Emperor want to do? Why are we sending a master to our country?
Sulu and Boni are both Tianfang religious countries, which are based on religion. The leader is equivalent to the deputy king!
Zhu Cixiang looked at Ali from the Sulu Kingdom and asked with a smile: "Prince, what do you think of my will?"
The will!
This is the will of the Great Emperor of China!
"Your Majesty," Prince Ali said with cold sweat breaking out on his forehead, "I, I am just a prince, a little prince..."
"Just a small one?" Zhu Cixiang frowned, "Aren't you the heir to the throne?"
Prince Ali shook his head... It's really not true! He has a brother!
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "You nodded! Then you are the crown prince of Sulu!"
Did I really nod? Prince Ali opened his mouth, completely confused.
"Prince, you still don't thank me!" Kong Yinzheng suddenly shouted.
Prince Ali woke up from a dream and quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "My lord Ali, I thank you for your grace, the great emperor!"
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Then An Zi really becomes the head teacher..."
Ali said: "Your Majesty, as long as I become the crown prince, I will definitely be able to facilitate this matter!"
"That's good, that's good!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "I think you are a promising king. You will definitely be able to do a lot of things after becoming the crown prince! Ali, you said that the most important thing in Nanyang is now What is it?"
"Your Majesty, the most important thing is of course to drive the Dutch out!" King Ali said through gritted teeth.
Zhu Cixiang looked at Prince Murtin of Boni Kingdom again, who also nodded vigorously: "Yes! The Dutch are so hateful! They do all kinds of evil and don't give us a way to survive!"
The Dutch, the Western colonizers! How could it not be hateful? They must be driven out... This is an anti-colonial struggle!
"Really?" Zhu Cixiang frowned, "But I heard that there are many sultans in Nanyang who are willing to follow the Dutch... Is this possible?"
"Yes!" Prince Ali said, "The Sultan of Johor, the Sultan of Perak, the Sultan of Pattani, the Sultan of Aceh, and the Sultan of Java all betrayed their people and Allah and went with the Dutch!"
"You even betrayed Allah?" Zhu Cixiang shook his head repeatedly, "Could it be that he was forced?"
Prince Murtin of Boni clenched his fists: "If they are forced, now is the time for them to stand up and lead the people against the Dutch! If they dare not stand up, they are traitors!"
Zhu Cixiang nodded and said: "I heard that the Tianfang Sect has a system of divine warfare, which can be launched by the Grand Master... An Zizhen, have you heard of it?"
An Zi was really stunned for a moment and stayed there.
He really doesn't know...
"You said it!" Zhu Cixiang nodded again, "In that case, when you arrive in Nanyang, go and mobilize the people and Sudan of Johor, Perak, Pattani, Aceh, Java and other places who are oppressed by the Dutch. Let's work together Attack the Dutch East India Company... we must drive the Netherlands away from Southeast Asia!"
"My, I obey your decree!" An Zizhen didn't know how to mobilize so many people, but he knew that he must listen to the emperor's words.
"Your Majesty," Prince Ali stood up with excitement, "Will China send troops?"
"I'm sorry!" shouted the eunuch in charge of etiquette at the side. Ali knelt down quickly, but a dark face looked at Emperor Zhu, full of expectation.
Zhu Cihong said: "Allah only saves those who save themselves! If the Sudanese and their people in Nanyang are willing to save themselves, then they will definitely get help. But the prerequisite is that they must show the determination and courage to save themselves."
Prince Murtin of Boni asked: "Your Majesty, what if they don't have such determination and courage?"
Probably not...The Dutch are so cruel, who dares to oppose them! Boni and Sulu were already fierce enough, but they could only barely parry and did not dare to take the initiative to attack.
Zhu Cixiang looked at the two princes and asked, "Do you, the Boni Kingdom and the Sulu Kingdom, have any determination?"
Neither do we! How could we have such determination? We're not crazy yet!
Prince Ali and Prince Murdin didn't know how to answer.
In fact, Zhu Cixiang was making things difficult for others, and he also knew how much Boni and Sulu were worth. These days, there is only one Ottoman Empire among the Tianfang religious countries that can fight, and the Ottoman Empire does not rely on its own Tianfang believers to fight, but relies on the Yenicherry Army to fight.
But who are the people in the Yenicheri Legion? They are all soldiers who were recruited from Christian countries under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and went through rigorous training!
And the identity of these people was that they were slaves at least before they left the Yenicherry Legion!
This kind of slave soldiers is the backbone of the military force of the Tianfang Sect countries after their rise - maybe these countries did not use slave soldiers in the early stages of their rise, but they must rely on slave soldiers after their rise. For example, the Ghulam Guards, the Mamluk Guards and the Yenicherry Legion are all of this nature.
And a Tianfang Sect country that has no place to buy slave soldiers, or cannot afford slave soldiers, or cannot buy high-quality slave soldiers, must be weak militarily.
However, Tianfang Sect takes great care of its believers and does not allow believers to be turned into slaves.
Therefore, after all the Turks, Uyghurs, Kipchaks and other fighting nations in Central Asia converted to Tianfang Religion, most of the powerful countries of Tianfang Religion lost their sources of slave soldiers. Originally, they all bought boys from that area for training. Yes, there is no place to buy it now...so when those countries encountered Western colonists, they all pounced!
Fortunately, the Ottoman Empire is relatively tolerant of religion. If they had forced Tianfang religion in places like Greece, Transylvania, and Hungary early on, then no matter how hard Grandpa Koprulu tried, he would not be able to revitalize the Ottoman Empire.
The supply of slave soldiers in the Ottoman Empire is very precious, and it is impossible to supply them to Boni and Sulu!
Moreover, Boni and Sulu are very poor and cannot afford slave soldiers. They can only rely on their own aristocratic soldiers from Tianfang Cult who are not very good at fighting. How can they defeat the Netherlands?
But you still have to fight if you can’t beat it! If Boni and Sulu didn't want to fight, then why did they send such a large mission to Yingtianfu? Are you kidding Emperor Zhu?
“We in Sulu are determined!”
“We in Boni Country are also determined!”
Prince Murdin and Prince Ali both expressed their determination.
"That's enough!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "I know that the Dutch are very capable of fighting. You two countries have limited strength and cannot defeat them. But I have made arrangements. As long as you follow the command of the imperial envoy I sent, you will definitely be able to defeat them. Stir up Nanyang. The Dutch will be exhausted by then, and China will also send troops when the Dutch are tired."
Emperor Zhu did not say that he would send troops to fight the Dutch... Those feudal rulers who followed the Dutch colonists and betrayed the interests of the working people of the country should also be attacked!
If these people were not willing to act as lackeys, could the Western colonists gain a foothold in Southeast Asia? How many Dutch are there in Batavia? The sky is thousands. If the local feudal princes had stood up and led the people to fight to the end, the Dutch would have been driven away long ago.
Zhu Cixiang added: "And I will not let the efforts of the two countries go in vain... After the work is completed, there will be heavy rewards. Sulu is a small country with few people. I can make the decision to change you to a big country, and I will give you the Sultanate of Johor." The land of Riau below is rewarded to you!
As for the country of Boni... I can move you to the rich country of Java! "
The territory of the Johor Sultanate spans the Strait of Malacca. The territory on the Malay Peninsula is called Johor, and the territory on the island of Sumatra is called Riau. What Zhu Cixiang promised to the Sulu country was Riau on the island of Sumatra... which was much richer than Sulu Island.
As for Java Island...it is even more prosperous. It is the most fertile land in the Southeast Asian islands, and the food output is terrifyingly high!
The two princes became excited. It seemed that there was still a future for them to follow the Celestial Dynasty!
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